This means: O Key of David. It is a title for the Messiah from the Old Testament. It is the O Antiphon for today. Here is the Full Antiphon. Use it in your prayer today:
O Key of David and sceptre of the House of Israel;
you open and no one can shut;
you shut and no one can open:
Come and lead the prisoners from the prison house,
those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death.
peace
St Luke the Younger, and the Monastery of Hosios Loukas
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In the Byzantine Rite, today is the feast of a Saint called Luke, a monk
who lived in the 10th century, and is traditionally known by variety of
epithets: ...
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